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Extensively modified and improved for 2009, the stunning Pyrenees route now starts and finishes in the charming Basque market town of Saint Palais. From there, the first day takes you west towards the coast before looping back to your hotel. The second day sees you ride further into the mountains to night-stop in a typical Basque village right on the Spanish border. The final days heads north-west before looping back again to your original starting point. Although the distances aren't huge, the stunning scenery, some breathtaking climbs and descents and the technical nature of the terrain makes for full days and an unforgettable ride. Some participants still drive down from the channel ports, or take the boat from Portsmouth to Bilbao, but most now take advantage of our 'fly & ride' option, taking a low cost flight to Biarritz while their bikes are delivered direct to the starting point. 

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Photos taken Sept 05 

For once everybody paid attention to the briefing. Probably hoping to find a way around the big climbs - no chance!

The scenery changed all the time. We never saw this rock field type going again for the rest of the trip.

There were however plenty of single track rocky descents and climbs. This one went on for 2 kilometres to the bottom of the valley.

Sometimes the tracks followed the contours

The extreme loop on day 2 gets a lot harder if you get the wrong goat track! Happily this isn't on the road book.

Day 1 gets quickly into the mountains.

Photos always flatten out gradients and this one is no exception. This is actually quite a steep climb and very slippery. Nearly everyone got stuck here.

Sport Adventure apologises for there not being a bike in this photo.

Evans checks where he is on the road book while everybody else predends not to be lost.

Can't see a bike in this photo either.

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Photos taken June 06 - photos courtesy of Ian Vessey

Julian Bishop attacks a climb just after lunch on day 1. In retrospect he should have probably given the second portion of duck a miss!

Now that's what we call single track.

Steeper than it looks, this is a bastard in the wet!

Oh no - another bit of single track with a great view.

View maybe not quite as good, but just as tricky.

Julian Bishop trying to work out if Evans really means 'all the way to the top'.

We would like to apologies for posting yet another photo with absolutely no motorcycles in it.

The last bit of mountain on the 3rd day - sob.

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Once again the Webb crew came on a load of old nails and dodgy helmets - and made everybody else look like beginners! Here they are at the end of an easy 16 kilometre 'piste' put in to avoid a goat track that had collapsed with the heavy rain.